What is Free/Open Source software ?
Free/Open Source software (hereon FOSS) is computer software that is licensed in a specific way, allowing anyone to modify and redistribute the source, provided they make the source available to all (you may think of a piece of software’s source as its recipe, the information necessary to build it). Because of its open nature, FOSS can be developed collaboratively over the Internet. This makes for high-quality, secure and stable software. To learn more about F/OSS, see : http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/philosophy.html (Free Software Foundation) http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.
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